More Football Game Prayers Expected; Pro-Family Groups Urge Fans On
Posted on: Wednesday, August 30, 2000
(AgapePress) - In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that prayer over public address systems at high school football games is illegal. As the football season opened across the country last weekend, many stadiums were the site of citizen- and…
Palestinian Muslim Leader Calls for Killing of Christian and Jews
Posted on: Monday, August 28, 2000
The most recent Mideast peace accord that was agreed upon in Egypt by Palestinians and Jews appears to offer little hope for a lasting peace. Violence continues in Israel as Muslim leaders incite their followers to hate and commit acts…
Awareness of Persecution is not Enough
Posted on: Thursday, August 24, 2000
LOS ANGELES (Compass) -- If a recent poll of Americans is any indication, the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) has been effective in raising awareness of Christian persecution. But motivating people to help the persecuted church…
“We Still Pray” Rally Blocks Highways into North Carolina City
Posted on: Tuesday, August 22, 2000
AgapePress) - In 1969, Arlo Guthrie stood before thousands of hippies attending the famed Woodstock music festival to proudly announce that, due to them, the highways had been closed. The counter culture had arrived.
“We Still Pray” Rally Blocks Highways into North Carolina City
Posted on: Tuesday, August 22, 2000
AgapePress) - In 1969, Arlo Guthrie stood before thousands of hippies attending the famed Woodstock music festival to proudly announce that, due to them, the highways had been closed. The counter culture had arrived.
Return to the Killing Fields
Posted on: Friday, August 18, 2000
SAN JOSE, CA (August 18, 2000) -- Faith Shaw was born in Rwanda, a country that between 1959-64 saw more than 500,000 people killed and a similar number or more fled the country. She was horrified when in April of…
Report Says UN Summit Seeks to Implement One-World Government
Posted on: Wednesday, August 16, 2000
(AgapePress) - The United Nations Millennium Summit is set to get under way in a few weeks. Many Christians regard the agenda as an organizational meeting for a one-world government. The UN calls it the largest single gathering of heads…
‘War is Hell’ but the Last Living U.S. D-Day Chaplain, is still Pointing People towards Heaven
Posted on: Tuesday, August 8, 2000
WHITTIER, CA (August 8, 2000) -- Lt. Col. George Russell Barber, the last living chaplain who was at the Omaha Beach, Normandy, landing on D-Day, says that "war is hell", but that doesn't stop him from proclaiming the Gospel of…
Christian groups in Nigeria launch program to aid victims of persecution
Posted on: Saturday, August 5, 2000
LAGOS, Nigeria, 5 August 2000 (Newsroom) -- A Christian initiative aimed at rehabilitating individuals and churches traumatized during sectarian riots in Kaduna earlier this year was launched in Lagos by a Pentecostal assembly, the Living Waters Unlimited Church.
Christians in Indonesia’s Maluku islands fear extermination
Posted on: Monday, July 31, 2000
31 July 2000 (Newsroom) -- Christians in Indonesia's Maluku islands say their community remains under threat of extermination by thousands of trained Jihad troops that have entered the region since May.
Gay couples sign up to wait for blessing by U.S. Episcopal Church
Posted on: Monday, July 24, 2000
24 July 2000 (Newsroom) -- Following a rejection of same-sex union rites by the Episcopal Church's recent convention in Denver, Colorado, a gay advocacy group within the church is collecting an online list of gay and lesbian couples "waiting" for…
